Mark, Do you really need/want one huge root partition? It might be good practice to start creating separate file systems. I'm assuming you ran out of space in /usr (most people do at least a few times). You could easily add /dev/dasdc to your system, create a partition on /dev/dasdc1, copy the contents of /usr to it, and mount it on your system. Since 210MB is still fairly small for everything else, you might want to create separate partitions for /var and /tmp as well.
For instructions on how to do this, see http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOS/movefs.html Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dorney, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding dasd space I need more space. We had the idea that we'd take down the instance, give it a larger minidisk and then use VM to copy the existing partition to the larger minidisk. Although this sounded like the easiest way to accomplish this, I don't think it'll work now that we've done it. It IPLs ok and when I go into YAST in the "partitioner" area I see the larger DASD, however, the partition has not changed (obviously). I guess the thinking (or lack thereof) was that this would extra space would magically appear. However, now I realize that isn't the case and to get a partition on DASDC I'm going to need to format it to get the extra space then partition it, is this correct? I suspect I'll be told about LVM but right now this is just a proof of concept and it didn't seem worth the effort to implement LVM for a few instances. I think what I have to do is add a minidisk the size I want, format it, partition it, then copy everything over there and change the mount points, does this sound along the right lines? Thanks Device �Id � Size � F �Type � Mount �RAID �LVM Group /dev/dasdb � (0192)� 210.9 MB� �S390 Disk � � � /dev/dasdb1� � 210.2 MB� �S390 DASD�swap � � /dev/dasdc � (0193)� 2.0 GB� �S390 Disk � � � /dev/dasdc1� � 1.7 GB� �S390 DASD�/ � � Mark Dorney (608)264-6694
